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Unfamiliar Kindle Edition

by Erica Cope (Author), Komal Kant (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Hailey Peters has always held onto the familiar. From the way she wears her hair, to dating her childhood friend-turned high school sweetheart--she sticks with what she knows, and she’s convinced herself that this is what makes her happy.

Chase Lancaster doesn’t play by the rules. He’s a classically trained pianist who rocks out in a punk rock band every weekend, and isn’t afraid of taking chances.

When they are assigned to co-write a song for their college music class, Hailey can’t imagine anyone she has anything less in common with than Chase. She is a sweater-wearing, neat freak, and he is disheveled and rough around the edges. As they spend time together, they both find a place in each other’s lives—a place where they challenge each other to be different and to embrace the unfamiliar.

Hailey never planned for a Chase Lancaster in her life, and she is about to find out that this walking contradiction will change her forever.

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Featuring the song, UNFAMILIAR, by pop punk band, Get Busy Living.
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00ITE3Y8E
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Erica Cope & Komal Kant; First edition (March 5, 2014)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 5, 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 725 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 258 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1496128338

Best Sellers Rank: #39,379 Free in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #7 in Teen & Young Adult Music Fiction eBooks
- #125 in Teen & Young Adult Contemporary Romance eBooks

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Erica Cope
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Erica Cope lives in the Midwest with her husband and three children.
She has an unhealthy addiction to coffee, a bad habit of binge watching shows on Netflix and eating pretzel M&Ms for breakfast.
When Erica isn't writing you can find her pretending to play her guitar, reading or baking something delicious.
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Komal Kant
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Komal Kant is an international bestselling author, and her latest release is WRONG SIDE OF TOWN. She writes books about falling in love, books that make you laugh, and that one book where you bawled so hard you needed ice cream therapy immediately afterwards.
Her days are filled with chatty imaginary characters, creating new worlds, and capturing aesthetically pleasing photos for Instagram. She lives in Kansas City with her goofy husband and their two dogs; a criminal mastermind Shih Tzu who is always plotting and a lapdog American Bully who is a professional pouter.
You can find Komal online in the following places:
Instagram: @komal_kant
Facebook Group: Komal Kant & Co.
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Website: http://komalkant.wordpress.com
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John Rogers Clark IV

The best kind of romantic tension

Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2015

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Control and familiarity are big parts of Hailey Peters' life. At age nineteen, she's had the same boyfriend for 5 years, puts everything in whatever planner she's currently using and dresses in a way that makes other teens think of her as a junior librarian. She's clueless as to how she comes across to others, especially guys. After all, she has Braxton who is safe, steady and predictable. In addition, his family pretty much adopted her after her mother took off and her father dealt with his feelings of loss by drinking and gambling away the money left for Hailey's education by her late grandmother.
When she heads off to college at a school an hour away, she's obligated to live on campus by the terms of her scholarship. At first Hailey thinks she should focus on a business degree, something that should lead to a safe, secure and predictable job in the future, but she also decides to take a music composition course because deep down, she loves to play piano and guitar as well as sing. On day one of the class, she spots this heavily tattooed and imposing guy. When the instructor assigns a joint song writing project, Hailey freezes momentarily because she's unable to roll with something so new. By the time she snaps back, everyone has paired up except for Chase, the guy whose tats and size intimidated her.
Thus begins an evolutionary journey for both of them. Each is a lot more than they realize, but neither is initially willing to go there. What results is a snarky back and forth while Chase slowly recovers from his cheating ex-girlfriend and Hailey begins to spread her wings. It's by no means easy for either of them and they hurt each other in the process. What happens by the end of the story is both satisfying and really feel-good. This is a very good book for school and public libraries to add if they have teen readers who like spark between characters and really well scripted romantic tension.

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A really sweet love story

Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2014

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Hailey’s life is all about making a plan and sticking to it. It’s how she’s managed to get by since her mother left and her father fell off the wagon, and so far it’s working out just fine. Only she didn’t plan on her boyfriend staying back home while she went off to college, and she didn’t plan on not being able to get into all the classes she wanted. She didn’t plan on having to be partnered with a tattooed slacker in her music composition class, and she certainly didn’t plan on falling in love. Seems all her careful planning has led to the unexpected.

Judging Covers: I admit it. I only picked up this book because of the guy on the cover. For once, a character is portrayed by a guy with gauges and real tattoos, not just some stock photo with Photoshopped tribal s***…although I suspect that skull bit might be Photoshopped, convincing as it may look. In any case, the couple on the cover come across as more genuine than the usual models, like the authors really cared about the perfect portrayal of their characters, and that’s exactly why I decided to give the story a shot.

The Verdict: I was initially a bit put off by the characters’ prejudices. Hailey struck me as a control freak, not a complete snob, but her initial reaction to Chase was enough to have me second guessing my reading choice. His reaction to her was no more redeeming, though I suppose at that point, he was just feeling defensive. Obviously, I stuck it out, though, and within a couple more chapters, I was definitely intrigued. I could understand Hailey’s need to control everything — after all, that’s pretty much the only reason she turned out as well as she did. I could even understand why she stayed with boring Braxton for so long. And a part of me felt really awful for Braxton as well. I mean, they were going through what pretty much every couple does when college puts some distance between them, but with his family situation and the fact that he seemed oblivious to Hailey growing up and away from him, it was just sad.

Now Chase, on the other hand… I really, really liked him, mostly because of the way he would occasionally tease Hailey. It was a fun side that kept him from being some broody rocker guy. However, I did expect him to be a bit edgier than he really was. I mean, the synopsis said he didn’t play by the rules, but aside from being in a band and having some ink, he was pretty straight-laced. He wasn’t a big partier, didn’t skip clases, didn’t really do anything I would call breaking the rules. So yeah, while it was refreshing to read about a tatted up guy that wasn’t a walking stereotype, it wasn’t what I expected.

I was also pleasantly surprised by the way things went down with Braxton. Granted, I kind of wanted to slap Hailey for handling things the way she did, but where it probably would have been easy to throw some ridiculous conflict at them, the whole thing happened more like it happens in real life. People make mistakes, hold on when they should let go, hurt people by trying not to hurt them. It was a nice touch of realism that doesn’t play out in fiction that often.

All in all, it was a really sweet love story, if a bit predictable. But that’s why we read romances, right? We want to see opposites attract and happily ever after play out without too many real-life issues getting in the way. And Unfamiliar delivered that, complete with some miscommunication, a little angst, and a lot of realizing that what people think they want isn’t necessarily what will make them happy. I do wish that the story had gone on a bit longer, but only because it would have been nice to see these two really together for a while instead of just working toward it. I guess that just speaks to how much I enjoyed the story.

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Editting

Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2014

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I really liked the storyline and the dialogue between characters but the internal monologues were very repetitive so it made the story drag a bit. It also had a few editing issues. A few times words were repeated, enough that I noticed it. There was one page where a section is inserted that just completely doesn't go and then it picks up to the correct content again and towards the end there's a big section that's horribly formatted. You can understand but you have to work your way through. It looks like your reading partial sentences, at least on the kindle app I used. I also noticed a plot/characters flaw in that two band members (spoiler*who are both replaced*) hold the same title of bass player... Lastly, I was kind of confused on a couple of occasions because it didn't seem like the plot was in the right order. I reread and filled in the blanks to work through it. Overall needs better editing and it'd be great. I will still most likely continue the series, assuming there is one, regardless of the continuous editing mishaps.

Reviewed in the United States on October 17, 2016

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I really liked this book alot! I would love to read about the rest of the band members (hint hint) especially Johnathan. It was cute, opposites attract love story. I got a little mad at Hailey for being so stupid about the engagement thing but I'm not going to go into too much detail. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who loves a tatted up black sheep in a band and a sheltered girl just getting to college.

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Cat

Five Stars

Reviewed in Australia on December 19, 2016

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Really great book. Highly recommend

Christine G. poirier

So-So sweet I love from the beginning till the end

Reviewed in Canada on October 21, 2014

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So-So sweet I love from the beginning till the end..
thank-you for the song
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gis

Dolcissimo

Reviewed in Italy on July 24, 2014

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Si ,il propagonista si esprime con qualche parolaccia ma niente di così sconvolgente . Il libro è pieno di dolcezza e non c è violenza.Mi è piaciuto un sacco.

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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 16, 2014

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A very unusual story was captivated by the characters and I thought that they were believable and interesting the romance was great and the happy ever after was great.

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Danni

4 stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 31, 2015

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sweet story, I would have given it five stars, but there were times I wanted to slap the girl she did my head in at times

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